{"id":11274,"date":"2010-09-28T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/joseph-bottum-on-the-ground-zero-mosque\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:20:07","slug":"joseph-bottum-on-the-ground-zero-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/joseph-bottum-on-the-ground-zero-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Bottum on the Ground Zero Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2010\/09\/holy-war-over-ground-zero\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">.&#0160;&#0160;Excerpt:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Of course, the first thing that has to be said about the building of an enormous Muslim center so close to the destroyed towers is that it\u2019s wildly offensive. And the second thing to be said is that it\u2019s wildly constitutional. <\/p>\n<p>The offensiveness looks like this: Regardless of how it is intended, it will be perceived by radical Muslims around the world as a giant monument, in the heart of the beast itself, to their success in attacking America. Indeed, it will be perceived by many Americans that way. The funereal and memorial emotion that embraces one on a visit to the Ground Zero site will be weakened\u2014poisoned, just a little\u2014by the presence of this new, grand construction.&#0160;<br \/><\/font>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#0160; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here.&#0160;&#0160;Excerpt: Of course, the first thing that has to be said about the building of an enormous Muslim center so close to the destroyed towers is that it\u2019s wildly offensive. And the second thing to be said is that it\u2019s wildly constitutional. The offensiveness looks like this: Regardless of how it is intended, it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/joseph-bottum-on-the-ground-zero-mosque\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joseph Bottum on the Ground Zero Mosque&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}